The White House on Tuesday laid out additional actions it is taking to tackle the ongoing opioid epidemic., stressing international and private sector cooperation.
on Tuesday set out its strategy to counteract the enormous and deadly flow of fentanyl into the U.S., including greater cooperation with the private sector and a push to close loopholes -- even as tensions with Mexico have been heightened over the issue.
Fentanyl deaths have been in recent years, with over 70,000 deaths in 2021 attributed to overdoses from the drug -- which is 50-100 times more potent than morphine and can be fatal in tiny doses. The White House also said it is increasing coordination and information sharing among government law enforcement agencies -- including by tracking pill presses used to make fake pills, increase seizures of bulk cash at the border, and also to target the origins, shipments and destinations of precursors and equipment. The White House strategy also involves disrupting traffickers’ access to the financial markets in the U.S. and to combat money laundering.
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